Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-15
HOME AND FARM.


is paradise. Hare.
One of the most profitable ways of
applying ashes is sowing them broad
cast over newly seeded. ground.
When clothes have acquired an
unpleasant odor by being kept from
the air, charcoal, laid in the folds, will
soon remove it.
kerosene excels for softening and
cleaning out the gummed and hard
ened oil in the boxes of mowers. reap
ers and other farm machinery.
Snow Drops: One cup of butter.
two cups of sugar. whites of five eggs.
one small cup of milk. three cups of
prepared flour; flavor with vanilla and
nutmeg. Bake in small, round tins
Boston Budget.
"A handy closet for harnesses is
made by simply boarding up the side
of the stable, mailing the boards on the
main beams, which are usually foot
wide. Thus you get a closet foot
deep, and can have it the full length of
the stable. 1t will make the place
warmer in winter aud cooler in sum-
mer-Fdrna and Home.
If the air in the cellar is too damp
the dampness can be removed by
placing a peck or so OF unslacked
lime in an open box on the floor. A
peck of unslacked lime will absorb
about seven pounds, or more than
three quarts of water, and in this way
the air in a cellar can always be kept
dry.
Salmon S alad. To a can of sal
mon take eight or ten stalks of celery;
cut the celery into small pieces and
mix with the salmon, which should
also be picked into small bits; sprinkle
over little salt and Il very little pep
per and pour on some good vinegar.
A small onion may be added if desired.
Exchange.
You can not restore rancid butter
to a sweet, good article. 1t may be
somewhat improved, however. by
washing it first in new milk. and after
that in cold water. Another plan is
to beat up quarter of a pound of
good fresh lime in pail of water, and
after allowing it to stand for an hour,
until the impurities shall have settled.
pour off the clear portion and wash
the ran cid butter in that.
Journal.
According to Dr. Berillon, the we'll
known French specialist, the practice
of sucking the thumb at night, to
which so many children are addicted,
and of which it is next to impossible to
break them, can be put stop to by a
single hypnotization accompanied, of
course, with the requisite suggestion.
The child never by any chance returns
to the habit again, though his memory
retains no trace of the order or prohibit
ton which operates so powerfully on
his will.
Egg Timbales: Six eggs; half cup
milk; four tablespoonfuls grated
cheese; pepper and salt to taste; pinch
of soda in the milk. Beat the eggs very
light; add the milk, soda, pepper and
salt, and last of all the cheese. Pour
into small buttered patty pans, set
these in a pan of boiling water and
bake in the oven until the egg is firm.
Turn out on q fiat dish, stick spray
of parsley in the center of each and
pour drawn butter around them. Eat
very hot-Farna. Field and Stocknaan.
NITROGEN MANUREs.
Commercial Fertilizers and Their Eco
nomical Application to the Soil.
Most elaborate experiments are year.
ly made in Great Britain, in relation to
commercial fertilizers and their eco
nomical application to the soil. In
many localities the question of COM
mercial fertilizers is an important one.
Many farmers err in supposing that
given q certain amount of commercial
fertilizers available. farm-yard manure
may be dispensed with. This. how
ever, is not the fact There is large
available nutrition in most soils if it
be not locked up. Among the other
constituents furnished by barn-yard
manure is the humus it furnishes to the
soil. which under the action of heat,
moisture and potash forms nitrates,
the most costly material in agriculture.
In relation to the Importance of barn
yard manure: In the process of
decay. combustion of carbon
and formation of carbonic
acid, with Ii beration of heat,
takes place in the soil, analogous to
that which occurs when the food of
animals undergoes a similar change.
The result of these changes in the
organic nitrogen of the soil, is the
separation of the carbon and nitrogen.
and the combination of the latter with
hydrogen, forming ammonia, and
with oxygen, forming nitric acid.
This uniting with potash forms
nitrate of potash (saltpeter), or with
lime nitrate of lime.
An English journal states that,
.'When DR.. Voelcker and Mr.. jenkins
made their report of the farming of
Belgium. they remarked on the too
exclusive use of sewage, and recon-
mended the economy of repl acing it
with an occasional dose of nitrate of
soda; and it is quite in keeping with
this advice that the farmers in the
neighborhood of Elm burgh, who use
a large amount of town dung and sell
rye grass, have found nitrate of soda
q very valuable manure, on account
of the large quantity of unused
minerals accumulated in the soil
"Farm-yard manure yields minerals
as we'll as nitrogen, and may be called
on that account universal manure.
One hundred pounds of nitrate of soda
contains about the same amount of
nitrogen as a ton of good dung; but